The All New Linux vs Windows MegaSuperThread

MrCode · 09-03-2010, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by nigelc

If the Microsoft OS is so good why is their search engine still using Linux?

I would tend to think that MS would avoid Linux like the plague for running their servers.

Slightly unrelated note: I still haven't voted on this poll...the options are rather confusing.

dalek · 09-03-2010, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by TITiAN

Can you proof that (or tell us where you got this information from)? I mean, they could run windows on their servers if they always have fallback servers for crashes... Whatever, just an idea^^

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_rep...//www.bing.com

There's the proof. www.bing.com runs Linux.

onebuck · 09-03-2010, 09:30 AM

Hi,

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Originally Posted by dalek

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_rep...//www.bing.com

There's the proof. www.bing.com runs Linux.

The above links prove what and how? M$ is using what, why & when?

Quote:

excerpt from http://news.netcraft.com/about-netcraft/

Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England. Netcraft is funded through retained profit and derives its revenue in the following ways:

Providing internet security services, including anti-fraud and anti-phishing services, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing.
Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the internet.
Accepting advertising on the Netcraft web sites.

Netcraft has a cosmopolitan client list, spread through the UK, the USA, mainland Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
Clients include Aegon, British Telecom, Capita, John Lewis, Lloyds of London, Microsoft, Rackspace, and Securicor.

In no way do I represent M$ in any form! When I see FUD or smear then I'll query for clarification(s). If M$ does use a GNU/Linux then what's the problem? It is GNU/GPL!

Companies & people contract all the time. Enterprise!

dv502 · 09-03-2010, 09:41 AM

I'll never used bing.

WHY? because it's from Micro$oft.

SCerovec · 09-03-2010, 11:16 AM

Something has come to my attention:
Is Windows (TM) a "good" or "lousy" OS strongly depends on the fact what for You use the machine on which it is installed:

Imagine You own a company, imagine You have a clerk You have particularly strong reasons to hate and humiliate (not going in details - why or how come, okay?)
Now imagine that clerk is mighty competent and able in his branch and so on...
But You want to make him look incompetent and powerless?

NOW:
What exact OS would You give him to work on?

You honor, I rest my case. B)

Stevan C.

dalek · 09-03-2010, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by onebuck

Hi,

The above links prove what and how? M$ is using what, why & when?

Netcraft tracks uptime, what OS and most of the time what software is used by websites. Why not just go to the link and read for yourself what they do and how they do it? It's not like Netcraft just popped up last week. That's what I did when I first heard of Netcraft many years ago.

schneidz · 09-03-2010, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by nigelc

Hi,
If the Microsoft OS is so good why is their search engine still using Linux?

well so doesnt hotmail. really most websites are using linux (whats the surprise)... except that steve ballmer says the open source is a cancer but this isnt the first time he has eaten his words.

cantab · 09-03-2010, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by SCerovec

NOW:
What exact OS would You give him to work on?

Any, running on underpowered hardware.

Re: Bing running on Linux. For large sites netcraft often picks up a load balancer or "reverse" caching proxy, not the original web server.

dalek · 09-03-2010, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by cantab

Any, running on underpowered hardware.

Re: Bing running on Linux. For large sites netcraft often picks up a load balancer or "reverse" caching proxy, not the original web server.

That may be true but M$ still has something running Linux. I have seen it reported in the past that even the M$ update site was running Linux because someone found a "problem" with their OS and they had to move things from M$ OS's to Linux to stop it.

I still think it is funny tho whether it is a balancer or something else.

MBybee · 09-03-2010, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by dv502

I'll never used bing.

WHY? because it's from Micro$oft.

Well, I don't use it because it blows and has terrible search results.
If it beat Google, I'd be all over it.

I used to use altavista because it ran on VMS... but ended up dumping that when it got too long in the tooth.

lupusarcanus · 09-04-2010, 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Netcraft Bing Results

Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, 98052, United States

I found that address to be kinda ironic (and funny).

cantab · 09-04-2010, 05:46 AM

Incidentally, I can't be the only person who thinks it would be cool to live in a house numbered 0.

onebuck · 09-04-2010, 07:22 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by dalek

Netcraft tracks uptime, what OS and most of the time what software is used by websites. Why not just go to the link and read for yourself what they do and how they do it? It's not like Netcraft just popped up last week. That's what I did when I first heard of Netcraft many years ago.

I presented their 'About' within the Quote. I know what netcrack is. I was indicating to dalek http://static.linuxquestions.org/que...s/viewpost.gif investigative queries. May be should have expounded more but hopefully things were indicated by the provided quote.

M$ was not the only major corp using Netcrack. Whenever you contract something you want the best available and the cheapest. So GNU/Linux fits the bill.

dv502 · 09-04-2010, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by MBybee

Well, I don't use it because it blows and has terrible search results.
If it beat Google, I'd be all over it.

I used to use altavista because it ran on VMS... but ended up dumping that when it got too long in the tooth.

Before google, Infoseek.com was my primary search engine. It was a very good search engine.

Now google is my primary search engine.

konsolebox · 09-04-2010, 11:22 AM

ouch.. this could hurt: mono-project_com

.. and some good open source projects are already based from it.